JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Amy Jo Estes, of Rosebud, was re-elected to a two-year term on the Missouri Farm Bureau (MOFB) board of directors during the organization’s 108th annual meeting December 6 at the Lake of the Ozarks. Estes represents members south of the Missouri River in the at-large position.
One of her roles as a board member is to serve as chair of the MOFB Promotion & Education (P&E) Committee. The committee is responsible for Agriculture in the Classroom projects and other promotional activities.
Estes and her husband, John, farm just outside of Rosebud where they care for a cow/calf herd and grow hay. The farm has been in John’s family for over 100 years. The couple has two grown daughters, Hannah and Sarah, and 14 exchange students they call their imported family. She currently works as regional manager for a non-profit company that places high school exchange students with families all over the Midwest. Estes was an elementary and middle school teacher for almost 20 years in Owensville.
She and her husband were on the MOFB Young Farmers and Ranchers Committee in 2002-2003 and she served on the P&E State Committee in 2013-14. Estes was first elected south director at large in December of 2015.